New York police hunt car that drove into BLM
protesters in Times Square
Video shows car moving through crowd with horn blaring
No one appeared to be seriously injured in incident
Guardian
staff and agencies
Fri 4 Sep
2020 13.56 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/04/new-york-police-car-times-square
The New
York police department says it is trying to find a car that drove through a
group of Black Lives Matter protesters blocking a street in Times Square on
Thursday night.
Video
posted on social media showed the car jerking through the crowd with its horn
blaring as demonstrators scream and scramble out of the way.
One video
posted on Twitter by a user named DataInput, showed a dark sedan plowing into a
crowd of people who were standing in front of the vehicle with bicycles.
Gwynne
Hogan, a WNYC reporter, tweeted that the crowd appeared “rattled” but that
“most people were able to jump out of the way.”
No one
appeared to be seriously injured. The NYPD said on Twitter that the car was not
a police vehicle.
The
protesters had gathered after seven police officers involved in the suffocation
death of Daniel Prude were suspended. Prude, 41, who was Black, died when he
was taken off life support 30 March, seven days after officers who encountered
him running naked through the street put a hood over his head to stop him from
spitting, then held him down for about two minutes until he stopped breathing.
Prude’s
death was described by a medical examiner as a ‘‘homicide caused by
“complications of asphyxia in the setting of physical restraint,” and came into
the national spotlight this week as his family called again for justice.
Despite the
incident with the car, the protesters continued their march on Thursday
evening.
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